Bøger af Jane Stanton Hitchcock

A witty, fast-paced ride up and down the social ladder with a determined woman wronged by a cheating husband who rights herself with a vengeance, now in mass market.Murder was never my goal in life. I'm a very sentimental person at heart. I cry in old movies. I love animals and children. So if anyone had told me five years ago that I could have willfully and with malice aforethought killed a fellow human being, I would have said they were crazy. But life has surprises in store for all of us... Jo Slater is a grand dame of New York society; some say the grandest. But she is about to be dethroned.Her wealthy husband of twenty years dies under strange circumstances and leaves his entire fortune to a mysterious French countess. Sliding down the social ladder faster than you can say "Versace," Jo discovers she has been the victim of a plot and decides to get some very sweet revenge. Your days are numbered, Countess!

Murder, blackmail, and betrayal, all set against the glittering backdrop of Washington society.TheToday ShowNo one knows the world of high society better that New York Times bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcockand no one captures its behind-the-scenes scandals and secrets better. In Mortal Friends, the Edgar Award-nominated author of Trick of the Eye and Social Crimes offers readers a comedy of manners and murders which Barbara Goldsmith describes as a dizzying dash through the heights of Washington society, a high velocity novel with more twists than a corkscrew. Dominick Dunne said, I had a great weekend with this book. Find out how the other half liveand dieby spending some quality time with Mortal Friends.

A rare book collector in New York City receives a grimoire, a medieval book of black magic; shortly afterward, he is murdered. His daughter, Beatrice O'Connell, believes that the grimoire is connected to the murder and vows to discover how and why.